Improvement in paint-brush binders



1..-TANNEY. PAINT-BRUSH BLLNDER.'

Patented 05m17.187s.-

WITNESSES UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LEwiS TANNEY, 0E BEAVER EALLS, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN PAINT-BRUSH BINDERS.

Specitication forming part of Letters Patent No. 183,345, dated October17, 1876 5 application filed June 26, 1876.v

ATo all whom it 'may concer/n:

Be it known that I, LEWIS TANNEY, of Beaver Falls, in the county ofBeaver and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Paint-Brush Binders, of which the following is aspecification:

place, and prevent them from curling up,

which may be veasily and quickly attached and detached, and will be heldsecurely in place.

The invention consists in an improved metallic binder for paint-brushes,formed ofthe two semi-cylindrieal plates, having semicircular disksattached to their upper ends, and having eyes formed upon their sideedges, the cross-plate lhaving eyes formed in its end edges, and thefastening-wires, vas hereinafter fully described.

The binder is made of light sheet-brass, or other suitable sheet metal.A are two Semicylindrioal plates, of such a size as to itv around thebrush, and to the upper edges of which are permanently attached twosemicirlcular disks, B, having semicircular notches I formed in thecenters of their straight edges, to t around the base of thebrush-handle. Upon the edges of the plates A are formed eyes or sockets,to receive the pins or wires C, by which they are secured to each other`around the brush. D is a plate, which is passed through the bristles,and the ends of which have eyes formed upon them, to interlock with theeyes of the plates A and receive the pins C. By this construction thedisks B prevent the device from moving down, and the plate D prevents itfrom moving up, so that it will be held securely in place. The lowerparts of the plates A are iattened, as shown in Figs. l and 2, to givethe proper formto the bristles.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

An improved metallic binder for paintbrushes, formed ofthesemi-cylindrical plates A, having divided disks B attachedto their upperends, and having eyes formed upon their side edges, the plate D, havingeyes formed in its end edges, and the wires (J, substantially as hereinshown and described.

. LEWIS TANNEY.` Witnesses:

W. S. MOORE,

JAS. D. MCAULIS.

